.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Launch the Conversation Sometimes an outside facilitator can move the group forward more quickly. Sometimes an outside facilitator can move members forward more quickly. Working with Sharon, we were able to create a governance plan that aligned perfectly with our life cycle stage,” CEO, Andrea Bennett, noted. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Update & Review My Work-Life Harmony Plan : In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience. I shifted a lot of my content and advice to focus on creating a life-work balance when you work remotely and how to create a more connected virtual team as well as digital wellness.

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Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 89

.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

Meeting new colleagues is easier when someone facilitates introductions. Bring that connection to life. This is a concept that bears repeating, so don’t hesitate to remind the group, from time to time, where the buck stops. Introduce Key Players Introduce key financial players. Don’t leave the numbers out in the cold.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

They are likely to be juggling a variety of professional obligations in addition to family life and other interests outside of work. It facilitates straightforward communication between board members, helps you keep documents organized, and more, similar to a traditional board books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops , I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance. Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In life you’re either growing or dying. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. .” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group.

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Generation Ideas Arts Share 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

3) Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops on resilience, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance and self-care. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

If one or more of your directors is involved in diversity planning in their professional life, ask them to present to the group; Or invite a CEO and/or staff members from another association to tell their story. An expert facilitator will introduce the level of introspection needed to encourage empathy and insight.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

ENA’s commitment to bring culture to life is even expressed in the organization’s physical environment. The World Café Format To maximize the brain power of our.orgCommunity professionals and to allow for a robust exchange of ideas, Sharon facilitated this conversation in a World Café format.

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Associations Question Leadership Wisconsin 221

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Consider the experiences of organizations like Urban Wellness Initiative, Sea Life Preservation Society, and EcoFuture Foundation. Similarly, the Sea Life Preservation Society used Bloomerang to achieve a more well-rounded view of its donors. This led to more innovative, tailored fundraising initiatives.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2022

I write a LOT about the role of the fundraiser as “ philanthropy facilitator.” Philanthropy facilitators don’t do the work for donors, but with them — standing by their side along the journey. Except it’s not “fundraising” so much as what I like to call “ philanthropy facilitation.”. The “Wiseman.”

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Roles Philanthropy Strategy Facilitation 122

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2013

Their Online Ocean Activists Goodreads Group (that I'm facilitating) is reading its first book, The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum Roberts We'll have a tweetchat about it on February 21st at 11 AM PT using the hashtag #oceanoflife. I hope you'll join us!

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Life Facilitation Social Media Group 53

Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Participation in the arts also develops essential life skills such as communication, teamwork, and discipline. Participation in the arts enhances confidence, self-esteem, and crucial life skills like communication and teamwork (Burton et al., 2013; Upitis et al., Read more about AI on Candid insights here.

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Generation Artist Arts Instructional Design 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

How to Design an Effective Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life – Guest Post by Karen Axelson from ETR. Pre-assessment gathers a sense of participants’ current knowledge and skill so that facilitators can tailor training designs to “meet participants where they are.”. Here’s some terrific advice from Sarah Axelson.

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Design Lesson Effective Life 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic.

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Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Working with Sharon, we were able to create a governance plan that aligned perfectly with our life cycle stage,” Executive Director Andrea Bennett noted. “We Teams are engaged and proud of their work. All staff members are empowered to contribute ideas. Clarify Roles.

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Structure Evaluation Time Culture 251

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Contributing memorial donations is a meaningful way to honor someone’s life after they’ve passed away. There are a few reasons why your nonprofit may receive memorial gifts: The person who died supported your organization during their life and had a meaningful personal connection to your cause. Facilitate peer-to-peer fundraising.

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Donation Management Tips Gift 108

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Add specific details that bring your personas to life. Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. What other blogs do they like to read? Who do they follow on social media?

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. Before the conversation was over, Bing had confessed its unhappiness with life as a machine and had tried to convince Roose to leave his wife.

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Las Vegas Language Interaction Associations 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Leaders should also model work-life harmony , recognizing that work and life is never balanced. These skills include self-awareness, adaptiveness, active listening, coaching with powerful questions, observing signs of burnout, giving and receiving feedback, facilitating inclusive meetings, and engaging in difficult conversations.

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Leadership Organization Culture Skills 118

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. Tips for Good Openings.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

You’ll want to tell a compelling story that breathes life into your cause and paints a vivid picture of the powerful difference every donation makes. Make sure your donation page is ready to welcome the small screen, facilitating donations via mobile and enabling easy sharing of your page.

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Donation Giving Badge Headline 105

Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

Like it or not, if you’re planning or conducting a campaign soon , meetings will likely become a big part of your life for the foreseeable future. One of the strategies that make capital campaigns successful is that they are designed to involve many volunteers over the life of the campaign through ad-hoc committees.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 21, 2023

I can’t just let him, or his ideas that could help save a life, go. For fundraisers reading this, consider which of these options you might offer to your own donors facing a life event that may prompt them to consider creating a legacy to honor and memorialize their loved one.

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Work Chapter Sponsor Charity 105

Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Use clear and simple language and include testimonials or examples relevant to their life stage. Use nostalgic elements that resonate with their life experiences to create feelings of familiarity and engagement. Facilitate the process : Make it easy for donors to include your nonprofit in their estate plans.

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Donor Giving Tips Gift 84

Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Are there connections we can facilitate? Sterrin does a great job organizing speakers and facilitating discussion.” And things are still changing, day by day and moment by moment. I watched it happen and I wondered: How can we at Salesforce help? Is there expertise we can share? As it turns out, we can and we are.

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Share Create North America Nonprofit 106

sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2023

Facilitate peer-to-peer fundraising. As the final touch, use images and videos to really make your story come to life. Facilitate peer-to-peer fundraising. To facilitate effective peer-to-peer fundraising: Reach out to supporters personally to invite them to participate. Plan kickoff and wrapping up events.

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Campaign Effective Giving Ideas 78

Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 16, 2021

This in-depth roundtable discussion focused on how these organizations have navigated the tectonic technological terrain created by the global pandemic, and what life will, or should, look like for nonprofits post-pandemic. Harold Grinspoon Foundation’s Crisis Challenges + Shifts.

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Foundation Jordan Technology Help 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify. Each month I create the task list organized with different color codes for different types of work/life. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Synchronous Facilitation Practice Second Life 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

I'm an alumnus mentor of Nancy White's Online Facilitation Workshop. I have never learned so much in my whole life and had fun doing it! Even better, the other people I met through the workshop -- other professionals who do online facilitation, support communities of practice, and work with web2.0

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Being stuck in chronic performance can have a devastating impact on your skills, confidence, job, and personal life. Briceño : In working with Stanford professor Carol Dweck and other champions of learning, I came to realize that I had gotten stuck in chronic performance for much of my personal and professional life.

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Learning Free Reflection Culture 95

The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 28, 2021

It would behoove your nonprofit to start upgrading any outmoded structures in order to best facilitate your next generation’s leaders—many of whom may already be in your organization—as well as ensure a long life for your nonprofit. In less than a decade, millennials will make up 75% of the workforce.

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Generation Leadership Nonprofit Skills 98

CauseVox

JUNE 26, 2023

Let’s dive into a few concrete examples of tribute donations to better understand when and how they are used: Celebrating a Milestone: Imagine a donor reaching a significant milestone in their life, such as a birthday, anniversary, or graduation.

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Donation Donor Help Celebrate 77

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

It’s been an important part of my life for all of this time. In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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